G20: End this war of aggression, Antony Blinken tells Sergei Lavrov

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said he urged his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to “end this war of aggression” in Ukraine.

The two spoke for less than 10 minutes in what is believed to be their first one-on-one conversation in person since before Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Blinken said the meeting was unscheduled and sought by the US when Lavrov was on the move.

“I told the foreign minister what I and so many others said last week at the United Nations and what so many G20 foreign ministers said today -- end this war